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It was the first demonstration of a television system that could broadcast live moving images with tone graduation.
He demonstrated the world's first colour transmission on 3 July 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with a filter of a different primary colour; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination.That same year he also demonstrated stereoscopic television.
In 1932, Baird was the first person in the United Kingdom to demonstrate ultra-short wave transmissions.
He also, with some commercial success, invented and marketed thermal socks. In 1928, the BTDC achieved the first transatlantic television transmission between London and New York and the first transmission to a ship in mid-Atlantic. And—perhaps most important as an indicator of impact—he achieved little commercial success. The world's first ever TV appearance fee was half-a-crown, or 12.5 pence in today's money.
In doing so he was one of a number of pioneers around the globe trying to crack this problem: but he was the first to successfully transmit a live, moving image in halftones from reflected light.
The station's 45-line, triply interlaced pictures used the U. A. Sanabria television technology.
From December 1944 until his death two years later, Baird lived at a house in Station Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, immediately north of the station itself.Baird died in Bexhill on 14 June 1946 after a stroke in February.The old house was demolished in 2007.The Sea Road-Station Road skyline now features a new block of 51 flats on the site, renamed "Baird Court".
John Logie Baird is buried with his mother, father and wife in Helensburgh Cemetery.
John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946)
John Logie Baird ©Baird was a Scottish engineer, most famous for being the first person to demonstrate a working television.
John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland, the son of a clergyman.
These offered a crude picture (about 30 lines of definition from 1929 to 1935, improving to about 240 before he broke off development) by means of a cumbersome system of large rotating discs fitted with lenses.
By early 1924 he had demonstrated in his laboratory in London to the Radio Times that he could transmit simple silhouette images like moving fingers in front of a light source.
Instead, Britain had to make do with the monochrome 405 line standard until 1964, when the the 625 line system was introduced, followed by colour TV in 1967. During a series of long walks there, his mind returned to his earlier notions of how to send wireless images. But he is also a tragic figure who often worked alone for lack of financial backing and lived to see his technical ideas superseded.
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer, innovator and inventor of the world's first mechanical television the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube. He kept no regular laboratory notes or records, making support for some of his claims difficult to find.
Baird's early technological successes and his role in the practical introduction of broadcast television for home entertainment have earned him a prominent place in television's history.
In 2002, Baird was ranked number 44 in the BBC's list of the "100 Greatest Britons" following a UK-wide vote.In 2006, Baird was named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's 'Scottish Science Hall of Fame'.
Early years:
Baird was born at 8am on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute (then Dunbartonshire), and was the youngest of four children of the Reverend John Baird, the Church of Scotland's minister for the local St Bride's church and Jessie Morrison Inglis, the orphaned niece of a wealthy family of shipbuilders from Glasgow.
He was educated at Larchfield Academy (now part of Lomond School) in Helensburgh; the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (which later became the University of Strathclyde); and the University of Glasgow.
Baird built what was to become the world's first working television set using items including an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, and sealing wax and glue that he purchased.In February 1924, he demonstrated to the Radio Times that a semi-mechanical analogue television system was possible by transmitting moving silhouette images.
Still, there is growing appreciation of his pioneering if limited role among scholars of British television. As a young man he had unsuccessfully tried to create diamonds by heating graphite; he had invented a glass razor that was rust-proof, but which shattered in use; and he tried to invent pneumatic shoes, using balloons that burst.
On 16 August 1944 he gave the world's first demonstration of a fully electronic colour television display using a 600 line system. From 1931 to 1933, station W9XD in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, transmitted some of the first VHF television signals.
Baird did not select television as a field of endeavor so much as he backed into it.
However, Baird's mechanical system was rapidly becoming obsolete as electronic systems were developed, chiefly by Marconi-EMI in Britain and America.